Posted on 03/07/2006 6:15:52 AM PST by robowombat
Women ejected by force from Iran stadium Mon. 06 Mar 2006 Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Mar. 06 – Iranian security officers forcefully removed several hundred women spectators from an indoor stadium as they were watching athletes performing in the 2006 Gymnastics World Cup tournament being held in Tehran, eye-witnesses reported.
The action took place on the opening day of the tournaments as fans gathered in Tehran’s 12,000-seater Azadi indoor stadium to watch the international gymnasts compete.
Little more than 10 minutes after the start of the games, intelligence officials from the government’s sports institution entered the stalls of the arena and demanded that all women exit the facility.
Among those asked to leave were several female translators for the international teams that were competing on the day.
As the roughly 250 women were being led out, a number began to protest loudly and chanted slogans against gender inequality in the Islamic Republic.
Some international athletes took photos of the women being forced out.
On Wednesday, Iran’s State Security Forces attacked female football fans in Tehran after they held a defiant protest against the government decision to ban women from football stadiums.
Dozens of young women, who had bought tickets and hoped to cheer on their national team, were all banned from entering Tehran’s 100,000-seater open-air Azadi Stadium.
After being refused entry into the stands, the women organised a demonstration outside the stadium and quickly brought to the scene banners which read, “Azadi Stadium: 100,000 men-only arena” and “We also want to cheer on our national team”.
The ban on women watching male athletes performing in stadiums has been in force for years, but a few dozen women have challenged it in recent months. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hard-line government recently decided to enforce the ban more stringently.
Ah, the Religion of Misogony strikes again.
/spit
"Sharia. Coming soon to a stadium near you!"
Really? You must have VERY sensitive ear drums.
Weird. Maybe they have some sort of male-only rituals going on in sports stadiums?
http://www.glumbert.com/media/rave.html
Those cops are not Persians..
One is definitely Asian, and one looks Russian.
BWHAHAHAHAHAH!
Stalls?
All right, all you feminists! Now get into those burqas! And no mure singing in public!
I suppose they send the morality police from house to house to make sure they don't watch it on TV? What a bunch of wack-jobs.
Oh, wait....
I have enough trouble doing laundry already. I don't need anymore bulk thanks. :)
Reads better.
Not Russian, Italian.
Nice muffin top.
LOL!
They'll have to gather up a lot of rocks for the obligatory mass stoning.
LOL! Yes, it is deafening, isn't it??
They were lucky. They were allowed to leave. Not all muslim countries allow the women to leave at all when they are perceived to have done something wrong.
I am not finding it in a search, maybe someone else can help. Where were the schoolgirls forced back into the burning dorm because they were running for their lives without headscarves, and they then died in the fire?
Or they could have been on their way to a Christian school instead of a football game. They may not have survived that either. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1511655/posts
Or they could have an older sister that married someone without their father's permission, and gotten killed so that they too would not dishoner the family. (not finding the link, sorry)
Or, horrors, they could have drawn pictured of muhammed, and caused the city to erupt in flames. (Or rather a few dozen other cities, maybe 6 months later... after a "muslim leader" takes one of your rough drafts and modifies it and shows it around...). (if you can not find referrences to that one on your own, you got problems)
Overall, I think these women got off pretty easy for an islamic country.
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